This isn’t justice. This is a stupid waste of taxpayer funds. They cut music and art classes for my children and then use it instead to pick people at random to allow the state to kill. In the meantime, I see no evidence at all that we won’t continue to execute innocent people. I have no idea why conservatives think the state can’t do anything right but somehow it can be trusted to determine who deserves to die.
Of course it is.
The pursuance of justice is neither stupid nor wasteful.
Then vote for reasonable tax rates so we don’t have to choose what essential programs to cut.
The state has no interest in executing innocent people. The state has a vested interest in not executing innocent people. The state does not execute innocent people.
Neither do I, but then, I’m a liberal.
As OJ can attest, juries sometimes get it wrong even with DNA results. Rich people can get acquitted or at least escape the death penalty with pricey lawyering. those who rely on public defenders, not so much. So we have a system whereby we’ll execute poor people, some of whom were innocent but that’s the price some of us are willing to pay to have their primitive need for vengeance satisfied.
No it isn’t. When we waste funds, apply laws arbitrarily and run the risk of executing innocent people – that isn’t justice. That is just fucking stupid
How about we start with this one? It’s stupid, expensive, immoral and uncivilized.
And yet the state has done so. Go watch the PBS documentary I brought up. The man was executed because we didn’t understand how fires start or spread. No DNA involved actually.
Then let’s apply the death penalty less arbitrarily and execute more of the people who deserve to die. Problem solved.
It’s stupid to allow people to live who do not possess the right to draw breath.
Expense is not an issue when it comes to justice.
It is not moral to waste resources on perpetuating life unworthy of life.
It is not civilized to treat murderers better than they treated their victims.
I’m familiar with the case. I find the claims made after the fact to be biased and propagandistic.
You’re better off sticking to your wildly stupid opinions than straying into the realm of wildly false facts. The state has and will inevitably continue to execute people who did not commit the crime of which they were accused. This is an irrefutable fact regardless of your opinion on the death penalty, or how much or little you give a shit about the innocent people being executed.
Cite?
Read this article:
The best science of the day said he did it. So Texas executed him. The best science today says the fire that killed his kids was an accident. So the guy lost his kids to fire and then lost his life to bad science and lousy politics. Where the fuck was the justice there? And what makes you think this sort of thing won’t continue to happen in the future?
So it hasn’t happened once in the past ten years, then?
Sounds to me like we’ve solved the problem and this is no longer an issue.
The science has progressed, so that mistake won’t be made again (assuming a mistake was made in the first place).
People have suddenly stopped giving false testimony?
All defense attorneys are suddenly dedicated and competent and will bend every effort to clear their client?
Prosecutors and police are suddenly corruption free and are all sterling examples of law enforcement ethics?
If you say you don’t give a shit, that would at least be honest.
You’re a liberal like Gacy was a children’s entertainer. It ain’t your main gig.
Then name an innocent person who has been executed in the past ten years.
I am not aware that being a liberal requires me to coddle and have sympathy for unrepentant murderers.
I dunno, define “botched.” He’s dead, isn’t he? As are both of his victims.
Given how difficult the road is to getting murderers on the table, I’d call it “Mission Accomplished.”
Close enough, it was 10 1/2 years. Rick Perry can claim credit for this one. If you think that prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, and juries are infallible then you are one gullible dude.
It doesn’t require you to construct strawmen either, but you nonetheless line them up to bravely knock them down.
I frankly don’t understand why we bother with all the expensive chemicals. One .38 round at the base of the skull where the spine comes in will turn them off like a lightswitch. The round costs what…$0.50 or so? Helluva lot cheaper.
Pretty much. Nor is there much evidence that he suffered - gasping while you die (unconscious) is not evidence that your death was botched.
Regards,
Shodan